"Beeline" apologizes to its customers and provides information about the causes of technical failure in the network

Company "VimpelCom" (TM "Beeline") informed about the causes of technical failure of September 6, 2011 and provide compensation to subscribers. September 6 in 2.15 was fixed by accident in the IP-network of switches and wireless LAN controllers. Processors routers handle the traffic stopped, as a result of this disrupted the connection between the switches and base stations. Failure of equipment influenced the center, south, southeast, south-west of Moscow, as well as the south, southeast, southwest, west and north-west of Moscow region. To address the problem of division were involved in technical support of equipment suppliers Ericsson and Cisco. Within an hour, the cause of the accident was clear, another hour traffic began to recover in high bell load. By 17:15 the equipment earned in the normal mode with the exception of one of the transit switches. After a restart to 19:00 access to services had been restored in full. For a detailed analysis of the incident, the company established a working group of technical experts "Beeline" and vendors. To prevent this circuit for mobile network equipment in the IP-based network will be optimized. "Beeline" apologizes to all subscribers in the Moscow region and as compensation for providing day unlimited SMS on Saturday, September 10. This was the company's customers will be further informed through SMS-mailing address.